Shanghai Street Kitchen Market

Today I went to the  Shanghai street kitchen market in Kowloon. Normally I would not consider kitchen shopping a highly amusing activity but in Hong Kong it is. For two or three blocks on both sides of the street most of the stores sell stuff for both home and restaurant kitchens (the rest of the stores in the kitchen market sell gold buddhas). I saw rice cookers the size of big tree stumps and pots that I could easily have been boiled in. There was also industrial sized meat grinders and woks. 

For a place that doesn't really do cakes in their traditional cooking, the market also had a surprising number of cookie cutters and cake decorating paraphernalia. Cookie cutters come in many more shapes and sizes than Canada, there were many in the shape of Chinese symbols. 

After the kitchen market we stumbled upon a food market that sold fresh fruits and vegetables, raw meat and live seafood. Many stalls had a wide variety of fish in shallow bowls with the price written on a white card. When someone wants the fish they simply scoop it into a bag for the customer to bring home. The raw meat stalls have pieces of meat hanging all over the stall. I even saw one that had a whole pig hanging from a door. There was also a stall with live chickens and lets just say they were not being sold as pets . . .

Fresh seafood being sold in the market